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Ziggy_Zaggyon Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

With all the SWE in the mix, why not just roll your own media player...? It's not THAT hard. Same for movie player btw (and one solution can do both ofc).

HTML spec for media is pretty amazing these days, no real excuses outside of time.

Ziggy_Zaggyon Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte

The federal service DOES have a pay-banding system (AcqDemo) that CAN support the extra compensation but it's currently NOT being adequately implemented. If the system actually implemented the next pay-band to be cover roughly pay-grade that covers the $100k to $250k income level that wasn't MGT focused and instead technical "do the work in a team setting" focused (NOT tech director - useless position - should be eliminated).

Also, the current pay-pool system is NOT effective bc MGT is NOT able and/or willing to fight for their employees who work to get a reasonable pay-bump and instead the game is always "can't pay my employees more than me or my MGT buddies".

The federal service culture insists on paying MGT positions more than technical higher-talent positions in over 80% of cases.

Ziggy_Zaggyon 'Obelisks', a new class of life living inside humans

"...new life forms are called Obelisks..."

Ziggy_Zaggyon Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'

Perhaps we should consider the tech GTRI developed to study the situation?

Link - https://www.twz.com/air/militarys-recently-deployed-ufo-hunt...

Ziggy_Zaggyon Wednesday UAP Hearing

UAP Hearing

Ziggy_Zaggyon U.S. Senate passes bill to support advanced nuclear energy deployment

Feel free to attempt to educate me on antimatter then ofc. Otherwise, I'll continue to consume the NASA public R&D slides while laughing off silly comments.

Ziggy_Zaggyon U.S. Senate passes bill to support advanced nuclear energy deployment

Yet nuclear still seems to be a front-runner candidate for net-zero-carbon solutions in the arena of "almost always online" base-load. AKA - what solutions are best at carrying the base-load in low-daylight or low-wind scenarios...?

And datacenters for LLM applications...? How much land will be required to build a power plant facility to power each new LLM datacenter...? What solution carries that base-load during the low-light or low-wind time-periods...?

If this is the status-quo in the US now regarding nuclear fission tech then don't look now but NASA and other nations R&D sectors are already making significant progress towards anti-matter solutions. Luddites beware - the risks with new high-energy tech doesn't get any less scary moving forward but they DO score better on net-zero-carbon metrics.

Ziggy_Zaggyon German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

...why not just print to PDF then since all browswer support PDF?

Ziggy_Zaggyon German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

I have no idea why ppl don't use tools like LibreOffice and OpenOffice over MS Office and the other cloud (joke) products.

If you're working on a file in the cloud instead of a local file then you probably should've already written/bought your own locally hosted server product instead.

OpenOffice Calc (and similar products) are a staple for ppl who need applications that work without all the "c-suite needs their bonus" silliness.

Ziggy_Zaggyon Antimatter Propulsion [pdf]

Wow, just wow. Great work being done at NASA.

Please don't retire for another 10 years (or more).

Ziggy_Zaggyon Mathematicians prove Pólya's conjecture for the eigenvalues of a disk

Any more details on this one? What might one use-case be for this application?

Ziggy_Zaggyon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://imgur.com/a/I9S6j12

http://urza.sytes.net:8080/cfusion/Enigma/Core/View/Constell...

iirc, the original ideas came from some clever team from MIT or similar setup. Used for bringing Sketchup and Blender models to life via JS. Intended for local LAN implementations.

Ziggy_Zaggyon NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens

Indeed, I did.

Ziggy_Zaggyon NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens

That's a fair assessment.

However, I'd add that the two figter pilots who testified in front of Congress would NOT agree with the balloon assessment. So, if you accept their opninions as SME and thus leaning towards legitimate then that leaves "a slow-moving object" before you add in the details about the acceleration patterns that also occurred.

Ziggy_Zaggyon NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens

Great points to consider.

Now consider viewing the Tic-Tac video footage (released by the Pentagon) along with with interview of the radar operator during that same mission and then the GIMBAL/GOFAST video footage (released by the Pentagon).

Finally, there is a CSPAN video where two former-fighter pilots and a former DoD intelligence director testified in front of Congress about these topics.

Then go down your list and see which of those 11 options fit the best.

Link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos

Ziggy_Zaggyon NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens

There R&D in this field is very early but yes there's already tons of literature on this topic to process/consider in the physics field(s).

Ziggy_Zaggyon NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens

Thanks for pointing out this often-overlooked aspect of the conversation.

Ziggy_Zaggyon Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself

So the problem is that the "user gestures" break any JS that attempts to engage or disgage fullscreen on a video object.

Imagine!!! ...there eixsts an app that implements a playlist using video objects (.mp4s). This app will NOT be able to engage/disengage fullscreen in Chrome/Edge without some serious hacks.

Potential solution: - Simply implement a brower setting that enables/disables user-gestures for specific URL(s).

Edge error: Failed to execute 'requestFullscreen' on 'Element': API can only be initiated by a user-gesture.

MDN Docs fullscreen link: - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/req... MDN Docs user gesture link: - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A... MDN Docs gesture event link: - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GestureEven... Stack Overflow Link: - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27649264/run-chrome-in-f...

"Does any other iOS browser have such feature?" - Not to my knowledge?

Can you dig it?

Ziggy_Zaggyon Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself

Support for script-driven fullscreen mode is a big plus. You keep support for that and I will keep the browser.

Ziggy_Zaggyon No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers

if you like that one then you'll likely enjoy this[1] one also

[1] https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix

Ziggy_Zaggyon Deep sleep may be the best defense against Alzheimer’s

I recommend learning more about sleep. Here's a book that takes a deeper dive.

I have no affiliation with the authors of the book or any of their case-studies.

"Why We Sleep" https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501...

Ziggy_Zaggyon Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine

Very impressive!

Ziggy_Zaggyon Craft using an inertial mass reduction device

Kinda amusing to watch this R&D topic surface again. Still hoping for someone to produce a clip of a functional demo.

Also, there was a second guy (Mario Ludovico) who was doing similar R&D where a Japanese team actually were able to replicate the results of.

Ziggy_Zaggyon The beauty of CGI and simple design

This. Find a tech (NOT the fotm shenanigans) that will help you get a product up and running. Then you can always go back and swap out parts as needed.

Try not to be influenced by the "omg, that tech is SOOO old!!!" crowd.

Ziggy_Zaggyon Spotifyd

Other tools exist that serve that purpose.

Ziggy_Zaggyon Spotifyd

Maybe I'm missing something but why don't more ppl just built their own (web-based?) media player and drop-in mp3s and mp4s...? It's not that difficult and is easily hosted on a server available anywhere behind a basic authenication gate. This solutions is esp. useful if you have any NAS setup.

What's the rationale for not building homebrew media players instead of railing against Spotify...?

Ziggy_Zaggyon White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note

$10 says this makes the history books

Ziggy_Zaggyon What “work” looks like

Late to the party but going to post anyways...

So, recent R&D into sleep tech has come along ways in the past 20 years. Basically research has shown that during nap/sleep cycles our brain moves around memories (from short-term to long-term and prioitization) and connections between memories. Also, this process optimizes information in the brain to make the access faster and more efficient thus providing opportunity for neuralogical advanced thought sessions given the datasets after a nap/sleep session.

Some basic take aways include +20% memory capacity per 8-hour sleep cycle and longer un-interrupted access to memory collections. It's also been shown that it's possible to tag the day's memories and then prioritize them during the next nap/sleep session. Significant results have shown that groups that take 30-minutes nap have stronger memory capacity versus groups with no naps.

The face of the R&D seems to be Matt Walker - PhD Brit with intense accent - you've been warned!

TL:DR - The brains basically recharges AND rewires during nap/sleep sessions.

Here's the links:

podcast: The Matt Walker Podcast

book: https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501...

Ziggy_Zaggyon Vogtle Unit 3 starts nuclear fuel load

For any parties who seek to gain a more thorough understanding of why nuclear power solves many (if not all) of today's power needs here's a resource that exlores mostly the benefits.

Freakonics podcast E516 (https://freakonomics.com/podcast/nuclear-power-isnt-perfect-...)

Also, there was a paper written by a NYC analyst firm from approximately 5 years ago that spends significant time crunching the numbers between green vs nuclear solutions and demonstrates the pros/cons of both solutions. This paper provides a very good baseline to start the process of assessing costs of either solution relative to the amount of power output from a specific solution. Unforunately, I seem to have misplaced the link but I'm sure someone can dig it up.

IEA (https://www.iea.org/reports/nuclear-electricity)

Energy.gov (https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nuclear-power-most-reliab...) - Demonstrates the sheer capacity that nuclear has over other solutions. Spoiler alert - you might be pleasantly surprised.

TL;DR - Nuclear offers significnantly more benefits than most ppl (in this thread) seem to realize after you actually consider the output capacities of the different solutions.

Ziggy_Zaggyon Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development

This resonates* heavily.

I moved to writing web-code for personal purposes only. Now, I specialize in other types of technical areas for paycheck purposes (C++, Git, PM support, computer HW maintenance and procurement, similar overly niche technical tasks, etc).